URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67472>
Summary: [troff] rename `asciify` request to `undivert` or
similar
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Mon 01 Sep 2025 12:14:32 AM GMT
Category: Core
Severity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: Feature change
Status: Postponed
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
_______________________________________________________
Follow-up Comments:
-------------------------------------------------------
Date: Mon 01 Sep 2025 12:14:32 AM GMT By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Making reference to ASCII is just asking for trouble.
With pending changes, we can "asciify" Unicode characters, which seems likely
to baffle users or make them suspect themselves or us of insanity or howling
ignorance.
See bug #66653.
The _m4_ language has a keyword called "undivert", and to me that seems a
useful precedent, even if not quite an analogous action. (In that language,
"undivert" does what we'd call "closing" or "ending" a diversion in *roff.)
Not planning to tackle this before the _groff_ 1.24 release.
_______________________________________________________
Reply to this item at:
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67472>
_______________________________________________
Message sent via Savannah
https://savannah.gnu.org/
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
